Goat Island (Ontario)
Transportation
Highway 6 passes through the island, crossing from Manitoulin Island via the Little Current Swing Bridge. Built in 1913 as a railway bridge, it has carried road traffic since 1946.
At the other end of the island, a fixed bridge carries the highway to Great La Cloche Island. The only other road on the island, Goat Island Road, is a service road that circles around the west end of the island. Goat Island Road has cul de sac that ends on the northwest corner of the island and separate by a narrow section of the North Channel from the a dirt trail leading off from Highway 6 on Great La Cloche Island. The former Highway 6 cross was cut off after the roadway was re-aligned to the east end of the island in 1998.
Communities
The only community located on the island is Turner. A small tank farm is used by E. B. Eddy to store chemicals for their Espanola, Ontario plant and Goat Island Range is a golf driving range is the only business of the island.
There are two transformer stations found off Goat Island Road and Highway 6.
References
- ^ Aelick, Lyndsay (30 March 2021). "Preferred option to replace aging Manitoulin Island swing bridge is a new, two-lane structure". CTV News. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "AER - Little Current Swing Bridge". www.magma.ca. Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2022.